Aggregated news and blog articles from around the Web.
By Glenn Greenwald | 3 February 2019 THE INTERCEPT — NBC News published a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of […]
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents By Rachel Botsman | 21 October 2017 WIRED […]
The head of the CDC has been forced to resign after her potentially illegal ties to big pharma and big tobacco were just exposed in a scathing report. By Matt Agorist | 1 February 2018 THE […]
5 March 2012 MAURICE PINAY — We have been warning of the zealous ‘Noahide Law’ proselytizing Rabbi Shlomo Riskin for years to no evident effect. Now he is bringing Catholic priests from around the world to […]
Researchers found that 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by 1 percent of Wikipedia editors, and they think this is probably for the best. By Daniel Oberhaus | 7 November 2017 MOTHERBOARD — When Wikipedia was […]
By Ronan Manly | 2 February 2019 ZERO HEDGE (BULLION STAR) — In early November 2018, it first came to light that the Bank of England in London was delaying and blocking the withdrawal of 14 […]
More than 600 women around the world have already accused John of God of sexually abusing them during healing sessions with the medium By Matt Roper | 30 January 2019 MIRROR — He was Brazil’s […]
With Notes on Its Academy Awards Snub in Favor of The Best Years of Our Lives; and the Film’s Striking Parallels to Another Inspiring Classic 9 January 2019 JAMES PERLOFF — Although the holiday season is […]
Lawmaker claims Russian airplane has come to whisk it away Gold accounts for much of the country’s remaining hard assets By Patricia Laya and Andrew Rosati | 29 January 2019 BLOOMBERG — Venezuelan lawmaker Jose Guerra dropped […]
By Adam Epstein | 30 January 2019 QUARTZY — Netflix says it wants people to stop lusting after Ted Bundy, because that’s what it has to say. But make no mistake, the streaming service is loving […]
By Mikael Thalen | 30 January 2019 THE DAILY DOT — While the nation grapples with concerns over the spread of inaccurate and deceptive information online, deepfakes — videos in which an individual’s face is superimposed onto another […]
Robert Miller, president of the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees, said that the board would no longer be reciting the pledge, claiming that it was ‘steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.’ […]
By Tyler O’Neil | 28 January 2019 PJ MEDIA — In recent years, the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has faced a slew of lawsuits regarding its deceptive practice of branding mainstream conservative and Christian […]
By David Brennan | 12 April 2018 NEWSWEEK — One-third of Americans think “substantially less” than 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a new survey that highlights a worrying lack of basic […]
By Todd Haselton | 28 January 2019 A bug in FaceTime lets you listen in to the audio if you try to call someone — even if they don’t pick up. You first video call […]
Even after losing roughly a third of its market cap, it still may prove one of the great shorts of all time. By Tyler Durden | 27 January 2019 ZERO HEDGE (13D RESEARCH) — “There’s […]
Directed by Mads Brügger, ‘Cold Case Hammarskjold’ looks into the suspicious circumstances of the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN Secretary General The film talks to Alexander Jones, an ex-member of a militia that […]
‘The hostility from a lot of the people here is such that I felt like hey, it’s gotten worse’ By Lydia Neufeld | 20 November 2018 CBC — A Jasper, Alta., woman who spent time in […]
By the time Alex Kafri tried to investigate whether anyone on his father’s side had survived the war, there was no one left to ask By Judy Maltz | 3 August 2017 HAARETZ — Growing up […]
By Molly Harbarger | 25 January 2019 THE OREGONIAN — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency Friday over 31 cases of measles in the state. The declaration allows the state to request medical resources from […]
25 January 2019 YAHOO (AFP) — YouTube said Friday it will stop recommending specious videos such as those claiming the earth is flat or promoting bogus theories about the September 11, 2001 attacks. The global video […]
By Henry Bodkin | 24 January 2019 THE TELEGRAPH — Chinese geneticists have been criticised after cloning five monkeys that were deliberately “edited” to be mentally ill. Welfare concerns have been expressed after the genetically […]
Second ad for Gantz includes ‘kill counter’ related to 2014 Gaza War By Jason Ditz | 21 January 2019 ANTIWAR — Running for parliament in the upcoming April vote, former Israeli Army Chief Benny Gantz has […]
By Jocelyne Zablit | 24 January 2019 YAHOO (AFP) — “Bohemian Rhapsody” director Bryan Singer on Thursday dismissed a bombshell article detailing fresh sexual misconduct allegations — some involving teenage boys — as a “homophobic smear piece.” […]
By Tyler Durden | 24 January 2019 ZERO HEDGE — As bad as things have been for Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke one year ago, one team of researchers, led by a former peer of […]
Exclusive: Daniel J. Pilla explains agency’s plan to surveil your finances By Daniel J. Pilla | 20 January 2019 WND — One of the reasons identify theft is considered by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax […]
By Eugenia Logiuratto | 20 January 2019 YAHOO (AFP) — Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil’s northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. […]
By Fabiola Sanchez | 21 January 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS — Venezuela plunged deeper into turmoil Monday as security forces put down a pre-dawn uprising by national guardsmen that triggered violent street protests, and the Supreme […]
THE US military is hiding what is really going in the skies after a series of mystery “blobs” were spotted on radar systems, conspiracists claim. By Warren Muggleton | 18 January 2018 THE STAR — Weather […]
Israeli lobby in the US managed to infiltrate all aspects of government, thus formulating US policy directly. By Ramzy Baroud | 8 March 2017 AL JAZEERA — Mere days after Donald Trump won the US presidential […]